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A medication agreement is a prescriber’s proposal for a patient to use medication. An agreement to discontinue the use of medication is also a medication agreement.

Instructions for the use or administration of the medication e.g. dose and route of administration. In the medication building block MedicationUse this is the pattern of use established by the patient or which the patient followed.

The prescribed substance is usually medication. However medical aids and bandages can also be prescribed and supplied via the pharmacy. Food and blood products do not strictly belong in the medication category but can be prescribed and supplied by a pharmacy as well. A type of medication can be indicated with **a single code**. That code can be chosen from several possible coding systems (concretely GPK PRK HPK or article numbers). Correct use of these codes in the software systems will sufficiently record the composition of the product used making a complete product specification unnecessary. In addition to a primary code **alternative codes** from other coding systems can also be entered (so that the GPK can be sent along in the event that the patient was registered based on PRK for example). Entering multiple ingredients will enable you to display a compound product. If one of the composite parts is liquid the dosage will be given in milliliters; otherwise it will be given in ‘units’. In that case the **composition of the medication** can be specified implicitly (with the use of a medication code) or explicitly for example by listing the (active) ingredient(s) of the medication. **Magistral prescriptions** can be entered as well. This can be done by means of the option listed above to enter coded ingredients and or by entering the composition and preparation method as free text. This is a partial information model.

MedicationUse2 is a statement on the historic current or intended use of a certain medicine.

A dispense is the delivery of an amount of medicine to the patient their administrator or their representative.

The dispense request is the request of a prescriber to the pharmacist to dispense medication(s) to the patient to support current medication agreements. The prescriber asks them to dispense a certain amount of medicine or to dispense medicine(s) for a period of use.

An administration agreement is the use (or administering) instructions from the pharmacist to the patient (or their representative or administrator) whereby a medication agreement is structured at a concrete level.

Profile on the Bundle resource which represents the structure of the Retrieve and Send MedicationOverview transactions conform information standard ['Medication Process'](https informatiestandaarden.nictiz.nl wiki Landingspagina_Medicatieproces). The output of the ['$medication-overview'](https simplifier.net medicationprocess medication-overview) operation (used in the former transaction) SHALL conform to this profile.

Profile on the Bundle resource which represents the structure of the Send MedicationPrescriptionProcessing transaction conform information standard ['Medication Process'](https informatiestandaarden.nictiz.nl wiki Landingspagina_Medicatieproces).

Profile on the Bundle resource which represents the structure of the Send MedicationPrescription transaction conform information standard ['Medication Process'](https informatiestandaarden.nictiz.nl wiki Landingspagina_Medicatieproces).